Jewish Studies

This volume contains Rifat Bali’s study of the Jewish place in Istanbul’s nineteenth-century sex trade as well as three contemporary accounts of the practice.

A unique copy of the Seder Hibbur Berakot , this edition includes 22 prayers, characteristic of the Italian Jewish liturgical tradition.

A quarrelsome disputation between a Jew and a Christian over the Old Testament prophecies, with introduction, notes, and essays on the character and compostion of the work.

The genuineness of the Slavonic text of Josephus; a massive compilation of evidence.

At the court of a fictitious King of Persia, first the Christians debate the pagans, with a rabbi as referee, and then the Christians debate the Jews, with a pagan referee. Standard edition, long unavaiable, with commentary and indices.

A selection of essays on magic and divination in relation to the biblical world, including Mesopotamian demonology, Akkadian literary influences, exorcism, healing, calendars, astrology, bibliomancy, dreams, ritual magic, priestly divination, prophecy, magic in the Christian Apocrypha and the New Testament, magic in rabbinic literature, and Jewish Aramaic magic bowls.

This book offers a survey of Judea, Galilee, and Coele Syria from the satrapy under Darius to the Roman reorganization under Pompey.

In this early reading book for Aramaic (that is, not Syriac), J.J. Marcel provides a few texts from the Bible together with an Aramaic-Latin glossary.

This book explores baptism in the ancient world, the sects which practiced it, their history, origins, characters, diversity, and influences.

A guide to, and abbreviation of, the standard code of Jewish law, the Shulhan Aruch

This volume includes myths, stories, priestly speculations, ritual magic, and legal provisions from many lands that parallel to the Old Testament.

This volume incorporates all the articles and reviews published in Volume 9 (2009) of the Journal of Hebrew Scriptures.

This book completely redefines our understanding of fin de siècle Anglo-Jewish author Amy Levy and her writing. Demonstrating that Levy’s writing is less anti-Judaic and more profoundly influenced by the religious concerns of classical German Reformism, Luke Devine's innovative approach reveals that Levy's writing constitutes a genre whose female subjectivity evinces a concern for justice and authority that prefigures numerous aspects of Second-Wave Jewish feminist theory and its spiritual and theological underpinnings.

Previous generations of scholars believed that prophecy was unique to ancient Israel. However, recent archaeological discoveries reveal that numerous societies in the ancient Near East practiced prophecy. This study examines the similarities and differences between Neo-Assyrian and biblical prophecy, particularly focusing on the 7th c. BCE prophets Nahum, Habakkuk, and Zephaniah, and discusses what implications these differences may have for our understanding of these prophets.

Blood, among the Jews, possibly because it was held to be symbolic of the soul, was an object of sacred awe. The ancient practice of covenanting by means of blood is widely-practiced as a result of ethnic superstitions.

This is an exhaustive work on the nature and force of the tenses in Hebrew, with a plenitude of examples, digressions and appendices on other topics.

This work is a collection of 712 obscure Hebrew and Aramaic words from the Talmud and Mishnah, compiled by Renaissance scholar Paul Fagius.

Presented here is a complete Hebrew grammar compiled by the learned Venetian rabbi Elijah Levita.

This work introduces a new method of learning Hebrew: through conversation.

This work is a revised and expanded English translation of Wilhelm Gesenius' classic Hebrew dictionary.

This comprehensive text provides a guide to the traditional marginalia to the Hebrew text of the Old Testament.

A book about the cultural heritage of the Sephardic Jewish population of Turkey written in the Ladino language. Historical accounts detail the Jewish expulsion from Spain and subsequent migration to the Ottoman lands in 1492.

A series of essays about Jewish printing and publishing in the Ottoman and Empire.

French-language memoirs of Rafael Chikurel, a Sephardic Jew from Izmir, who served in the Ottoman administration.

The proceedings of a conference on Jewish publishing and printing in the Ottoman Empire.